The Midlands PR Conference is an exciting event for PR professionals across the region in collaboration with CIPR, PRCA and BCU.

There are three types of tickets available (all free to BCU students) - one for the morning, one for the networking lunch session and one for the afternoon. Please select carefully to ensure you have the right ticket. You can book more than one if you are available and would like to attend for most or all of the day but spaces are limited.

AGENDA - AFTERNOON SESSION ONLY:

1.30pm: Joe Godwin, Director of BBC Midlands and the BBC Academy - The changing media landscape: new ways to consume, commission and create content

2.15pm: Breakout session 1: Three workshop options

• Technology trends – Ringo Moss, McCann – seen at SXSW2018
• Crisis Simulation – Polpeo, Kate Hartley, Polpeo
• Virtual Reality as a Communications solution – Edward Loades

3.15pm: Breakout 2: Three workshop options

• Crisis Simulation: - Kate Hartley, Polpeo
• Content Marketing: - Jane Hunt, JBA
• Internal Comms Simulation: - Helen Bissett and Hannah Thorsby, H&H Communications

4.15pm: Afternoon networking break

4.30pm: Ethics Panel debate: Does the changing face of communications present ethical challenges? Chaired by Midlands Insider Editor Kurt Jacobs and with panel discussion from Claire Walker, PRCA Professional Practices Committee, Francis Thomas (West Midlands Trains / CIPR Fellow) and Megan Featherstone (Slimming World)

5.30pm: Summary, thanks and close: Rachel Roberts, CIPR Midlands Chair (@spottydogcomms)

PLEASE NOTE: The event will be attended by up to 75 PR professionals and the student tickets available here are on a first come, first served basis. If you are unable to attend after reserving a ticket, please release the tickets as soon as possible to give your spot to another student.

First year students taking MED4129 this semester will be joining in some of the conference activities and do not need to book a ticket.

Students who have volunteered to help as ambassadors (or who would like to do so) do not need to book tickets. Please email kelly.ohanlon@bcu.ac.uk if you would like to help on the day or if you have any questions at all.